Age of Empires III:

Thinking of re-installing this game and its expansions. Never really quite understood why it was hated so much by the fandom, maybe it's because I never had a raging nostalgia hard-on for Age of Kings to color my view.

Personally, I like the card system, although the levelling up can be abused to Hell and back. Just have to keep someone alive and let your experience rack up. Especially if you add to it with the supply vehicles.

edited 28th Oct '12 3:41:51 PM by Journeyman

When the hammer falls and your world shatters, I'll be there to cut the handle and pick up your pieces.

Bah! Strelets nothing! I focused on building my Oprichnik Loot N' Burn squad, who would proceed to sever the enemy supplies by murdering their villagers and burning down their farms and Barracks while their army were away/still being formed. A few dozen worker corpses and supply building ashes later, and the enemy was in my grasp as the rest of the army came in. Fun, fun times....

I've played Ao EIII for years, and I really loved it anyway. At the time I bought it it was because I really liked Ao EII, but that was so long ago that I don't remember any of the major differences between them (though that's starting to hurt me now that I've bought II on Steam). I mainly played Ottomans, Germans and Iroquois.

The only things from II that I remember as missing in III were formations and the fact that units could miss (and as such that you could do stuff like firing artillery at areas), which I remember as being really nice touches to the game, but that was so long ago that it doesn't really effect how much I like III.

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